...n the journal Obesity provides further evidence that strict maternal control over eating habits such as determining how much a child should eat and coaxing them to eat certain foods during early childhood may not lead to significant future weight gain in boys or girls. Instead, this behavior may be a res...

...research JDRF funds. Two lines of approach being considered to regenerate beta cells are spurring the body to copy existing functioning beta cells and coaxing the pancreas to create new ones.
"Targeting beta cell regeneration is still a relatively new approach for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. This s...

...uld be used to derive cell lines carrying specific disease-causing mutations from a man with Parkinson's, for exampleon which to conduct research.
coaxing specialized, or differentiated, adult cells to regress back into a more malleable, embryonic-stem-cell-like state (a process called "induced pluripote...

...ity, called the new study "a profoundly interesting line of research."
"It is not implausible that one might improve the effectiveness of a drug by coaxing it to go into a region where the enzymes it blocks exist," Netzer said.
But medical use of such a product can raise questions, he said. "When you p...

...sue, and engrafting them into the heart, would be more effective than transplanting the cells themselves."
Keller's lab had previously succeeded in coaxing cardiac cells out of mouse embryonic cells.
For this study, the team used similar principles, applying specific growth factors at different stages ...

...ort in the December issue of Health Psychology, in which she showed that automated computer calls were almost as effective as live health educators in coaxing people previously less active to get more of a spring in their step.
King and colleagues feel that developing approaches to help people increase th...

...egg production can lead to potentially fatal overstimulation of the ovaries.
Thus, obtaining immature eggs from unstimulated ovaries, and then coaxing them towards a pregnancy, is a major step forward for patients in this group.
Separately, ESHRE reported that scientists in Israel had been ab...

...n the project.
So far the students have recorded more than 250 songs, including melodies for herding, harvesting, singing babies to sleep, and coaxing yaks into giving more milk.
"It is quite remarkable how much they have been able to accomplish from such a remote place, thanks to the Intern...

...gainst strains of HIV that had adapted to conditions in the laboratory.
Currently three clinical trials are underway to test the effectiveness of coaxing the immune system's disease-killing T cells into attacking the virus more aggressively.
In this week's New England Journal of Medicine Anthony Fauc...

... to locate those molecules except right at the surface.
Warren says that the new technology developed by him and his colleagues is capable of coaxing both hemoglobin and melanin inside questionable skin moles to emit light by exciting them with highly controlled laser pulses.
The non-invasiv...

For clinicians, the ability to look routinely inside the body and see -- at the level of the cell -- how it confronts disease is a distant dream. But in a series of experiments with genetically engineered mice, a team of researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the University ...

... discovery opens a new avenue for reprogramming cells that could eventually lead to treatments for a range of human diseases and traumatic injuries by coaxing a patient's own cells to repair and regenerate the damaged tissues.
The research team reported its findings in the paper "Induction of Stem Cell Ge...

...iniimonas glaciei , in the current issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . The team showed great patience in coaxing the dormant microbe back to life; first incubating their samples at 2˚C for seven months and then at 5˚C for a further four and a half month...

...o chosen cell types.
"We are taking adult spermatogonial stem/progenitor cells, which in the body are unipotent, capable of only making sperm, and coaxing them back to embryonic-like stem cells, which are pluripotent," Dym says.
Once these new cell types are produced several weeks after initial colle...

... in helping re-establish healthy coral populations in the Caribbean.
Meanwhile, at the Zoos Invertebrates Exhibit, keeper Mike Henley has been coaxing the 12,000 coral larvae to settle in a specially designed tank. The 90-gallon, salt-water tank features high-wattage lights and a custom-built surge d...

...macology and the paper’s senior author, said the results are significant because they demonstrate the most effective and consistent method to date for coaxing genes into making the proteins that carry out all of life’s functions ?a process formally called gene expression.
In any medical specialty, Dr. ...

... On a popular children's game participants stand as close as possible without touching. But on a microscopic level, coaxing cells to be very, very close without actually touching one another has been among the most frustrating challenges for cell biologists.
Now MIT resea...

... New evidence to explain how a common tropical fish mends a broken heart may suggest methods for coaxing the damaged hearts of mammals to better heal, researchers report in the November 3, 2006 issue of Cell, published by Cell Press.
The researchers fou...

...hor and lab fellow at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The feat is the bacterial equivalent of removing lungs and coaxing the disembodied tissue to breathe.
Squier and principal authors Yijia Xiong and Liang Shi, PNNL staff scientists, discovered that the proteins, ou...

...solar cells that can be produced easily and inexpensively as thin films that could be widely used to generate electricity.
But a major obstacle is coaxing these carbon-based materials to reliably form the proper structure at the nanoscale (tinier than 2-millionths of an inch) to be highly efficient in co...

...no reports whatsoever. That's why it took a little big longer."
In their research, Zhang and his team discovered that timing is truly everything in coaxing tabula rasa stem cells into specific fates. The team found that there is a narrow window of time, roughly between the third and fourth week of human d...

...the news about biotech research in Wisconsin, you might be convinced by now that virtually every researcher wearing a white coat is somehow engaged in coaxing embryonic stem cells to perform miracles.
Not so. While Wisconsin is a national leader in stem cell research, thanks to breakthroughs at the Unive...

...cademic tools established by the U.S. Department of Defense , UW-Madison, and the Wisconsin Technical College System .
Research is one thing, but coaxing modern educational systems to adopt curriculum built on the ideas that make computer games and simulations good candidates for instruction is another ...

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